High Anxiety Reviews

Dr Richard H. Thorndyke is a psychiatry professor appointed to run a prestigious mental hospital in California after his predecessor dies in shady circumstances. Once there he starts to suspect foul play and is contacted by the daughter of a... Read more

The in-your-face humor may not work for some but it sure works here. The opening of the movie is funny and it doesn't stop until the ending. Chloris Leachman as Nurse Diesel simply cannot get any better. The movie has a... Read more

HIGH ANXIETY suffers only by comparison to Mel's YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, but it stands by itself as a frisky, very funny screwball spoof of the works of Alfred Hitchcock.I do agree with others who complain that Mel should have given the... Read more

I'm sure that others will say that I just don't understand Mel Brooks' form of humor. My reply? Why would I want to understand it? The was by far the worst movie I have ever seen.... Read more

funniest movie ever. mel brooks is a genius. one should probably see a good amount of alfred hitchcock movies before seeing this one to get the full effect. for example, the genius of making mel brooks' characters name thorndyke instead of... Read more

Mel Brooks' homage to Hitchcock is full of hilarious spoofs of Hitchcock's great film moments and overall techniques. Actors Mel Brooks, Madeleine Kahn, Cloris Leachman and Harvey Korman give excellent performances. Brooks' neurotic sensibilities are perfect in re-interpreting Hitchcock as a... Read more

Mel Brooks is a very funny man, and though sometimes I think his comedy is a little on the low side, "High Anxiety" has some truly hilarious moments. Mel riffs on Hitchcock, right down to Madeline Kahn's gray suit a... Read more

Mel Brooks, if nothing else, is spectacular at collecting up the clichés, the stereotypes, the conventions, the seriousness, and at the same time the joy and entertainment that comes in the different works he has made fun of over his... Read more

Mel Brooks in 1977 was not yet as widely popular as he would be in the early 80's. High Anxiety foreshadows such comic movies as Airplane! from 1980 and Leslie Nielson parody films, like the Naked Gun films of the 90's.... Read more

Mel Brooks arrives at the "Institute" to find suspicious goings on, and tries to find out what's going on and who is behind it. Cloris Leachman and Harvy Korman are fellow doctors at the asylum, and watch over the institute... Read more